Letter to the Editor and every SA media-person who has the balls to read it and the braincells to understand its implications.

From: a Legal Gunowner
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 9:50 PM
Subject: SA Hunters interdict
The Editor: The major newspaper known to all citizens of SA

Greetings, Media Person

MP, why did you afford the interdict SAHunters got against the Minister of Police on Friday such scant coverage? There are reports in the Independent rags of gun owners streaming in to gun shops asking for the return of guns they handed in.

Go back a couple of days and you find elderly gunowners streaming in to police stations to hand their registered firearms over to the SAPS.

Nearly a million of our citizens have handed in their legal firearms, buckling to a sustained campaign of threats, intimidation and blatant fraud. People like Sandy Staats. If there was any 'temporary reprieve' it was for the idea of a constitutional state, the rechtstaat. Murderers on Death Row get reprieves, not law-abiding citizens. You know the SAPS has been refusing to pay compensation for surrendered firearms (or even inform people that they are entitled to claim compensation in terms of s 137 of the Firearms Control Act). If ever there was an opportunity for the press to act in the public interest and shield the citizenry from a government riding roughshod over individual liberties, the Constitution, the rule of law, this was it.

I personally recommended John Smyth QC of the Justice Alliance of South Africa write to you, informing you (and the public - you know, the million or so people who handed in their firearms subsequently) of the case JASA is bringing in the Western Cape High Court to force the SAPS to pay compensation as required by the FCA and our Constitution.

The earliest court date John Smyth and Peter Hodes could get - by going directly to the Acting Judge President and pointing out the urgency of the issue and the blatantly unlawful abuse of public power (and the refusal by the SAPS to file a plea on the merits) - was August 31. I assured Mr. Smyth that your publication - unlike the Independent rags - had always given gun owners a fair opportunity to reply to anti-gun propaganda, as a matter of principle.

Your publication ignored Mr. Smyth and has ignored the JASA case, which might just prevent South Africa from becoming another Zimbabwe. JASA is first in line in the upcoming constitutional challenges to the Firearms Control Act. MP , how many times during your career as a Journalist / Producer/ Editor, have you seen a judge spank an organ of state like this:

(Below I quote from the Judge's summing up)

There is a strong prima facie case that the Firearms Control Act may be unreasonable and unconstitutional * There are massive problems implementing the Act * The application is urgent

The SAPS and its officials have primarily been responsible for the uncertainty and problems encountered * The SAPS does not have the capacity to process thousands of applications

The SAPS' failure to deal with applications within a reasonable time is unconstitutional * It is glaringly obvious that the SAPD doesn't have the means to deal with the burden placed on it

The SAPS did not deny they are guilty of unlawful administrative action. * The 'Hunters' case is uncontroverted by the SAPS * Prospects that the 'Hunters' will be successful in the main application are good

The SAPS made no attempt to show that infringement of firearm owners' rights is justifiable in terms of Sec. 36 of the Constitution.

The SAPS could offer no evidence that legal firearms are a problem or are used in violent crime

Gun owners' rights far outweigh any inconvenience for the SAPS

All valid licences issued and held in terms of the Arms and Ammunitions Act of 1969 are lawful and valid until finalisation of the main application

So, why the scant coverage?

Because the applicant is SA Hunters and you have 'bought into' the animal rights fascists' agenda?

Is it personal?

Is it because John Smyth is a missionary?

Because most of we, the SA Gun Owners are Christians who see gun control as the ungodly disarming the godfearing?

Why? Why have you not acted as a shield when so many innocents were bearing the brunt of the state's game of chicken with the Constitution?

Now run this, or be damned.

Mr Average South African Gunowner.